How Secure Are Your Passwords?

I'll keep this brief today -- just a comic and a quick comment...and yes, the license for this comic allows me to hot link to it. Click to see it bigger:

Rather than choosing completely random combinations of words, a strategy to make passwords easy to remember is to choose words that mean something together to you, but wouldn't to anyone else. For example:

Pick a place, something you saw there, and who you saw it with.

Pick a gift you've received, who gave it to you, and what the occasion was.

A few examples of passwords I could create using these methods include "yellowstone bald eagle nicci", "amazon kindle carlos christmas" and "itunes card nicci fathers day".

The actual number is probably smaller (at least if you know where somebody's been, who their friends are, and if occasions tend to gravitate toward birthdays, holidays, and a few other things). But as long as you don't make your choices too obvious, it should yield pretty good passwords, particularly if you invent your own schema for picking words.

Hey, wait a minute. The two schemas I mentioned were place/object or occurrence/person and gift/person/occasion. I suppose you could go with a gift, given by whom, where, and on what occasion to use all 4 of those elements.

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